Which Car's Styling Do You Prefer? Cadillac CTS or 2013 Lincoln MKZ?

I think everyone is missing Harvey's point. The splitting of the grille is a visual connection only to the MKZ...connecting the dots between the "pinched" center of the Optima and the full split of the MKZ, a split which is stepped be an intermediate line forming two obtuse angles that the pinch implies. As Harvey demonstrated, increased the size of the Optima's grille (thus breaking the connection delineated between the base of the headlight and grille), the similarities of the motif become quite similar in design intent.
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MGdriver:I think everyone is missing Harvey's point. The splitting of the grille is a visual connection only to the MKZ...connecting the dots between the "pinched" center of the Optima and the full split of the MKZ, a split which is stepped be an intermediate line forming two obtuse angles that the pinch implies. As Harvey demonstrated, increased the size of the Optima's grille (thus breaking the connection delineated between the base of the headlight and grille), the similarities of the motif become quite similar in design intent.

I'm not seeing what this is trying to prove. You have to heavily chop the Optima to look like any other car. Even when you do the heavy chop, it looks more BMW than Lincoln.
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MGdriver:I think everyone is missing Harvey's point. The splitting of the grille is a visual connection only to the MKZ...connecting the dots between the "pinched" center of the Optima and the full split of the MKZ, a split which is stepped be an intermediate line forming two obtuse angles that the pinch implies. As Harvey demonstrated, increased the size of the Optima's grille (thus breaking the connection delineated between the base of the headlight and grille), the similarities of the motif become quite similar in design intent.

-Dequindre-:I'm not seeing what this is trying to prove. You have to heavily chop the Optima to look like any other car. Even when you do the heavy chop, it looks more BMW than Lincoln.

I don't think it's necessarily to prove anything; just an interesting coincidence that two different designers from two different companies on two different continents came to quite strikingly similar design intents. Not even that one car is a clone of another, but that they give a certain vibe in the angles, proportions and lines.

I think the new MKZ is phenomonally horrendous. I have never seen such a mix and match design in my life. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the most incohesive design I can recall seeing in my life.

CTS hands down. Hell, I'd take a prior gen CTS over the Lincoln. And that gussied up Fusion doesn't have a chance in matching the CTS's driving dynmaics.

Frisky_Dingo:I think the new MKZ is phenomonally horrendous. I have never seen such a mix and match design in my life. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the most incohesive design I can recall seeing in my life.

CTS hands down. Hell, I'd take a prior gen CTS over the Lincoln. And that gussied up Fusion doesn't have a chance in matching the CTS's driving dynmaics.

-Dequindre-:The MKZ doesn't look whaley anymore. The MKS, MKT, and to an extent, the MKX, but not the 2013 MKZ.

Hang on for a second there, I think 11secJeepSRT8 may be on to something:

2013 Lincoln MKZ

Baleen Whale

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You fail. They don't look anything alike.
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MKZ by a mile. The current CTS took a stylistic step back from even the first gen CTS IMO. It looks poorly proportioned and too in your face blocky. The MKZ manages to be an elegant design without looking too feminine.

Wow SS 427 what an epic fail. Lolmthey look nothing alike. I mean, if you're gonna compare a Lincoln to a whale, at least compare it to this one.
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